When a soldier comes home, he finds it hard......to listen to people whining about being bored.....to keep a straight face when people complain about potholes.to be tolerant of people who complain about the hassle of getting ready for work....to be understanding when a co-worker complains about a bad night's sleep...to be silent when people pray to God for a new car....to control his panic when his wife tells him he needs to drive slower...to be compassionate when a businessman expresses a fear of flying.

....to keep from laughing when anxious parents say they're afraid to send their kids off to summer camp.

....to keep from ridiculing someone who complains about hot weather..

....to control his frustration when a colleague gripes about his coffee being cold.

....to remain calm when his daughter complains about having to walk the dog......to be civil to people who complain about their jobs.

....to just walk away when someone says they only get two weeks of vacation a year.

....to be forgiving when someone says how hard it is to have a new baby in the house.The only thing harder than being a Soldier...Is loving one.

In order to see this content you need to have bothJavascriptenabled andFlashinstalled.Japanese Kawanishi H8K seaplane after strafing. KwajaleinSquad of Rufe's at Bougainville . These things were very nimbleeven with thepontoons.

The A6M2-N float plane version of the Zero did extremely well, suffering only a small loss in its legendary maneuverability. Top speed was not affected, however, the aircraft's relatively light armament was a detriment.

Snow on deck. USS Philippine Sea North Pacific 1945HARVS on the way in shot by a P-47. Rare shot.

Deck crew climbing up to get the pilot out. He did. That’s a fuel

tank his foot is on.Empty?

Marines disembark LST at Tinian Island.

Bougainville.

Guam

Outside Bastogne

German 280mm K5 firing

U.S. munitions ship goes up during the invasion of Sicily.

V1

Spitfire "tipping-off" a V1. If you've never heard of this

insane tactic .......At first V1's were shot down by gunfire. Optimum range

was inside 200yds, which was marginal for survival. Many planes were damaged

and quite a few pilots killed. Basically at such high speed and low altitude a plane

had to fly though the explosion and hope.

With the high risk of being blown up some of the best pilots started tipping the V1's

wing, because of damage to wing tips they later developed a tactic of disrupting

the airflow by placing their wing very close to the V1's wing, causing it to topple.

Not every pilot did this. At night this was not possible, the flame from the V1 blinded

the pilot to everything else, though some Mossie pilots flew past closely in front of

the V1, again causing it to topple. The thought of doing this at 450mph, 4,000 feet

above the ground, at night and being blinded gives me the willies.

Panzerkampfwagen VI "E Tiger"

Ju 88 loading a torpedo. This is one HUGE bomber ... and it's on

pontoons!!!!

German "KARL" mortars. Sebastopol

Reloading a KARL

BOOM!

Macchi 202v

Italian 303 Bombers over N Africa

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PEARL HARBORDecember 7th, 1941

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